Passage: Exodus 12:1-51
In 1898, the British started building a bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya, East Africa.
The word “Tsavo” means “slaughter”….and no name could have more accurately described what happened there.
During the first 9 months of the construction of the bridge, 2 huge male lions stalked the worker’s campsite. They dragged men from their tents at night and devoured them. Some said they killing for sport.
The workers did all they could to protect themselves. They built fires and fences…but the “Tsavo man-eaters” were not deterred. They jumped over and crawled through the fences. Everything the workers did to protect themselves was futile. The lions were unstoppable.
In the wake of the attacks, hundreds of workers fled Tsavo, which brought the bridge construction to a standstill.
Eventually, the lions were shot and killed by Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson who later wrote a book about it called “The Tsavo Man-Eaters”.
But before he killed the lions, they had killed and eaten nearly 40 people. Some historians estimate they may have killed over closer to 150 people.
The Lions were named “The Ghost” and “The Darkness” by Lt. Col. Patterson. He named them Ghost because in the moonlight, when they attacked, they looked white as snow, and he called them “The Darkness” because he said their souls were “Dark as night”.
Today, you can still see “The Ghost” and “The Darkness”. The Chicago Field Museum bought their skins from Lt Col. Patterson in 1928 and reconstructed the killer lions. They’re still on display today.
In 1996, Lt. Col. Patterson’s book “The Man-Eater’s of Tsavo” was adapted into a screenplay for a pretty decent movie. The name of the movie?
“The Ghost and the Darkness”
Today, we are going to read something that’s more terrifying than hungry lions on the hunt. It’s a passage that typically, at best, makes us feel uncomfortable about God. For some people, its just the confirmation that God is some soul-less creature that kills at random like Tsavo-lions.
What I hope to show you today from this passage is something about God that’s entirely different than that. I want you to see that, yes, God is terrifying. But at the same time, he is doing something incredibly beautiful...with you, with the world, with all of history.
In a sense, he is the Ghost and the Darkness…but he is something so much better.
Exodus 12:1-3
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
Exodus 12:5-8
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exodus 12: 11-14
In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
Exodus 12: 21-36
Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. And when you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said. Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”
The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Like the majority of the Bible, its difficult to understand this passage without also understanding several others. So, we have a lot of ground to cover today…Just Genesis to Revelation…No big deal. Let’s get going.
1) You owe your future to the Lion.
This passage is certainly not the easiest to read to your kids at bedtime.
In fact, some of the Bible’s most prominent stories include things that have you asking, “Why would God do that? Couldn’t he have done this some other way?”
I mean, he comes in and kills the firstborn child of every single Egyptian. Isn’t that what the evil Pharaoh did just a few chapters before?
I know for many of you, its stories like this that have you saying, “This is what I don’t like about this God of the Bible.”
But, before you decide to write him off, let’s consider exactly what’s happening here.
First, remember what has happened in Egypt up to this point. 9 times God has sent signs and warnings to Pharaoh, commanding him to let Israel out of slavery. Each time, God was showing the Egyptians that he was the only real god. Each plague was a direct attack on one of the Egyptian gods. But each time, Pharaoh hardened his heart and decided that Yahweh, this God of the Hebrews wasn’t worth obeying.
Additionally, with each of the plagues God was simply speeding up the natural effects of what Pharaoh’s sinful rebellion was doing on its own. Every plague was an unraveling of creation. It was an undoing of shalom, which is when creation all works together in harmony. But now, creation was eating itself alive.
God’s order was moving back into chaos. Which, when we left off in Chapter 10, the creation in Egypt had unwound all the way into darkness.
God was speeding up the effects of Pharaoh’s rebellion showing them bit by bit what their refusal to worship the one true God was doing to their souls.
When we get to this chapter 12, there is only one sign left to show Egypt what their future looks like if they reject the one true God…who created them….and all the created things they had turned into gods.
Isn’t it interesting that when God talks about this final plague he says he is executing judgments on all the false gods of Egypt?
Remember, every single plague is showing the Egyptians that whatever they put their hope in that was not the real god, would only lead to a breaking apart of the world, and eventually their own soul’s death.
Now, why the firstborn?
Well, to help you understand that…of course, we need to go all the way back to the beginning.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
First, in Genesis 3, after Adam and Eve believe the voice of the serpent instead of God’s word, they sin, and a curse came into the world. For the first time, creation started to unravel. People, and animals, and plants all started to die.
But in the middle of that God gives this hopeful promise of a child that will be born who will overcome evil. He will crush the head of the serpent who lied to them…and tempted them to worship other gods.
So, from the beginning, humanities hopes were wrapped up in this child. And the Scriptures constantly have us asking…who is this child that will rescue us from the death and decay of our sin?
Now, fast forward to Genesis 22.
Genesis 22:2
He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
This guy named Abraham received a promise from God that one of his offspring would be the one that would reverse the curse of death.
And after he waits until he is 100 years old to finally see this kid born, God tells him to take his son up on a mountain and sacrifice him.
I know, its harsh.
But there is something you need to understand about this ancient culture.
Did you ever wonder why Abraham didn’t say, “God you are crazy insane…and you claim to be good, forget you!”
See, this is so hard for us to see because we live in such an individualistic society.
You know, we talk about “What I want to be when I grow up.”
We set goals for ourselves and we think in terms of what we are going to do in a lifetime.
That’s not the way these ancient people thought.
Their aspirations were about the prosperity of your family line.
The firstborn son represented the future. He was your retirement policy. He would care for you when you were old. He would take the family inheritance and be sure it was carried on and distributed properly among his brothers and sisters.
The firstborn, all the way from Genesis 3, was the hope of the family.
…and that future was owed to God.
See, if a family member acted in shameful way, the whole family was implicated. The whole family was responsible.
Some of you know how true this still is. Even in our society, you are tied to your family many ways. By nature (the genes you inherit) and by nurture (the good and bad habits you picked up from your family environment). And even as you try and break away…those things still cling to you. Still haunt you. Like The Ghost and The Darkness.
See, Abraham knew he owed his future to God.
Over and over, in the law that would come in Exodus, God talks about how the life of the firstborn is owed to him.”
See, If God would have said to Abraham, “Offer your wife”…he probably would have said, “you’re crazy!”
But when God says, “Offer your son!” He knows God is calling in his debt.
Abraham owed God his firstborn because he had sinned. He owed God his future.
So Abraham takes his son up the mountain, to obey God’s command.
Genesis 22:10-11
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
He stretches out his hand to slaughter (TSAVO) his son. But just then God stops him and says, “Don’t do it.” And then in the thicket he sees a ram caught by some thorns and he offers the Ram as an offering instead.
Now, I want to show you something. All along in this story about Abraham sacrificing his firstborn son, there is the language of looking, watching, trying to see something.
Genesis 22:4, 8, 13a, 14
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram…
So Abraham called the name of that place, “The LORD will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”
Abraham lifted up his eyes to see…where God was taking him.
And that word “provide” is the Hebrew word for “See”
So Abraham says to Isaac…You’ll see a lamb.
And Abraham names the place “God will see to it” On the Mountain “it (or the lamb) will be seen.”
Here’s the thing.
Abraham knew that because of his own sin, that he owed his firstborn son, his future, his hope, all his aspirations to God.
See, Abraham had a troubling question rolling around in his head as he went up the mountain…but it wasn’t “How can God be such a monster to require me to do this?” No. it was a different question.
He knew God had made a promise to him that he would make his family great, that he would bless the world through this promised child…but he also knew that God was just.
That the life of the firstborn, his very future was owed to God and God could call that debt in at any time.
So here’s the question Abe was asking on his way up the mountain- “I know God is just.
I know I owe him my future. But I also know he’ll keep his promise. I just don't understand how he is going to be merciful?”
See, Abraham knew God’s justice was like a lion. Like the Ghost and the Darkness…God would always do what was right. He would never let evil and sin go on unpunished.
God, in his justice, would always hunt down sin and devour it.
So he was looking…searching…trying to see what God was up to.
Now, did you notice, that he was looking for a lamb?
But instead, God substituted a ram for Abraham’s son.
This means that on the way down the mountain, Abraham was asking a different question.
On the way up he was asking, “I know God is just…but how is he going to be merciful?”
But on the way down, after seeing God’s mercy, Abraham was asking, “I know God is merciful, but how is he going to be just?...and when I am going to see that lamb?”
Now back to our story in Exodus.
God is finally calling in the debt of Egypt’s sin.
He is requiring their future from them.
But did you notice, that, this time, Israel is not off the hook.
In the latest plagues, God had only effected the Egyptians, but now, this “destroyer” God was unleashing…this Ghost in the Darkness…this Lion of justice…would not discriminate.
See, he doesn’t say, “You’ll be saved from my justice because you are Hebrews.”
He doesn’t say, “You’ll be saved from my justice because your sin is not as bad as the Egyptians.”
No, The Ghost in the Darkness does not discriminate.
He simply finds where there is sin and injustice…any sin and injustice and he requires your future from you.
God was once again speeding up the effects of their sin. He was bringing what was a future day of reckoning…right to their doorstep that night.
Listen…this is true of you and me.
We all have sinned against god. We are guilty of worshipping other gods. And the Lion of God’s justice is not looking to see who is better than whom.
God’s justice holds each of us accountable…and requires our future from us.
Like the Ghost and the Darkness in Tsavo…God’s justice isn’t asking about your race, or your looking for a list of your good deeds, or comparing you to other people…he is only asking if you have worshipped other gods…and that answer for all of us is unequivocally, across the board, YES!
But isn’t it interesting that God says to Israel, “I’m unleashing my justice, a Ghost in the Darkness, the destroyer, and unstoppable force that no fire, no fence, no door, no barricade can stop. He will cut through the world’s most formidable military power like a hot knife through butter …but there is one thing that will stop the destroyer.
A fluffy little lamb.
You have to slaughter the lamb.
And put the blood on your doorpost….and you’ll live.
I’ll overlook your sin…I’ll Pass Over your door. I’ll let you have your future. The Ghost in the Darkness will pass over you, if you stretch out your hand, and slaughter the lamb.
Was this the lamb that Abraham had looked for? Was this lamb the answer to Abraham’s question coming down Mt. Moriah? “I know God is merciful…but how will he be just?”
No, it can’t be THIS lamb. This is more mercy for Israel’s kids. This is another ram in the thicket. This is not THE LAMB…its just a lamb.
But it was saying something new to Israel…that is…
2) Only a spotless Lamb can get your future back.
The LORD is very clear in his instructions to Israel here regarding 2 things.
The first thing is what sort of lamb this supposed to be.
It can’t just be any lamb.
This lamb has to be unblemished. The lamb has to be the best you have. Perfect.
See, if you were going to have a substitute lamb for your firstborn…he wasn’t to be the runt of the pack, but the very best.
Because, a blemish, or a defect, would be a reminder of the curse of sin. You would be offering a part of God’s creation that was falling apart to save you from that same unwinding.
No. Only something that was brand new, still growing…still moving toward newness…something that looked pure and unstained by the curse of sin and death could substitute.
And you they had to slaughter this lamb. They had to bring the curse of death on something that was pure. The justice of the Lion had to devour the purity of the lamb.
The Ghost in the Darkness had to eat the lamb, so he didn’t eat the people.
The second thing that God goes on in detail about in this passage is all about a meal. A supper they are to eat.
He tells them to commemorate this event with a meal.
Not only on this night, but moving forward into the future.
In fact, God tells them to rearrange their entire calendar around this day…this Passover meal.
Its like if we declared that July 4th was now going to be January 1st.
He tells them to roast and eat a lamb, and also to eat unleavened bread and bitter herbs with it.
Later, he will also institute the drinking of 4 different cups of wine.
And the point is so that future generations…no doubt, the one’s that were spared on that night….will never forget God’s mercy.
See, every time a child asks “Why do we do this?” when their parents reach out their hands to slaughter a lamb for the Passover dinner…God wants the parents to say, “Because God provided mercy for us…he let us go free by the blood of a lamb.”
Now, I know what you might be thinking here.
Why can’t God just forgive?
Why can’t he just be merciful without all this killing?
Why does God ever have to call in a debt?
He’s God right? Just forgive and everybody is happy.
Well, begging your pardon…but you don’t really believe that.
Even though God can do anything…there are some things that don’t fall in the realm of anything…because they truly are nothing at all.
For example…Can God make a rock bigger than he can lift?
Can God make a square circle?
Can God make a tall person that’s short?
The answer is no. But that’s not a slight on God’s power…God cannot do self-contradicting things. He can’t do non-sense.
And “Just forgiving” someone is non-sense.
Here’s what I mean.
The nature of forgiveness itself, means that something is owed.
If you don’t owe something, there is nothing to forgive.
I come into your house and break a vase…
You ABSORB the cost of my sin against you.
Now the problem with God just absorbing the cost of our sin…is the cost of our sin against God is not monetary…its death. It is to unwind. To fall apart. To Dis-integrate.
But God is not a created being. God is not flesh. He is not a part of his creation. He is holy. Different. Other. Better.
So God cannot possibly dis-integrate.
If he absorbed our cost…that’s what he would have to do.
God can’t “just forgive” any more than you can not be out the cost of that vase if you “just forgive” me for breaking it.
So, for centuries, God was patient. He didn’t call in his debt. In fact, he allowed Israel to make sacrifices…to redeem their firstborn. With a slaughtered spotless lamb.
But it was just a place holder. Just a reminder of a promise. At some point, Israel knew, God could call in his debt.
Just like Abraham, from this point forward they would all be asking “We see God is merciful, but when and how will he also be just with us, like he was with the Egyptians.”
See, when God rescues Israel, Moses writes, “It was a night of WATCHING by the LORD.”
It was a vigil. The LORD was watching over them as the destroyer, the ghost in the darkness, the Lion of justice, moved through Egypt…God was forgiving their sin by the blood of the lamb. But exactly WHICH LAMB?
Do you see there in v 42 where it says by all people of Israel?
That is the word for son.
This is a night of watching for all the sons of Israel. Forever. For every generation.
See, this meal they are to eat, of Roasted Lamb, and bread, and bitter herbs and wine…is not simply to look back…its to look forward.
The sons of Abraham, the ones that are spared are, just like Abraham coming down off the mountain, still looking for THE LAMB that will once and for all answer the question, “I know God’s mercy now, but will God’s justice come again like a Ghost in the
Darkness…and devour not the lamb…but me…because I know I’m a sinner.”
Centuries later…the question would be answered. The watch would be over. When a 30 year old Galilean man stepped into the Jordan River to be baptized…and John the Baptist said…
John 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Behold! Look. What you’ve all been watching for. What you’ve all been waiting for. The Lamb of God…not a lamb! The lamb Abraham looked for. The lamb our forefathers looked for in Egypt. The lamb that every single time you ate the Passover meal…you were looking for.
THE LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.
3) Jesus is the Lion and the Lamb that makes the Future all supper, and no sacrifice.
Did you notice the difference in the sacrifice with Abraham and the Sacrifice of the lamb in Egypt?
For Abraham, there was sacrifice, but there was no supper. No commemoration.
But in Egypt, there was a sacrifice…followed by a supper. A supper that kept going year after year…where every year there was a lamb slaughtered.
Well, if you go to the NT, You’ll find that the night before Jesus died on the cross he was eating the Passover meal with his disciples.
And in this Passover meal, they would eat bitter herbs, to remind them of the suffering of slavery in Egypt.
They would eat unleavened bread to remind how quickly they had to leave Egypt.
They would eat a lamb to remind them of the sacrifice that stood in their place.
And they would drink 4 cups of wine throughout the meal…that each represented one of 4 lines from Exodus 6:6-7.
Each cup is tied to one of these promises
Cup 1- I will bring you out from Egypt
Cup 2- I will deliver you from slavery
Cup 3: I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment
Cup 4: I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God
And at the Passover meal there was a person called the Presider.
He would stand and walk everyone through these 4 cups.
On the night before Jesus died, he ate the Passover meal with his disciples.
Matthew 26:26-29
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”
He stood, announcing he was the presider of the ceremony.
And then he took the bread, which would have been right before the 3rd cup… and he didn’t say the typical line. He didn’t say, “remember how our forefathers ate this bread quickly.”
No he wasn’t pointing them back to the past…he was pointing them to the future.
His death.
And he said, This bread is MY BODY. I am God…who entered into broken creation…so that my body could be broken to take the curse of your sin on a cross.
And then he took the 3rd cup…the one that said, “I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment”, but instead he said, this is MY BLOOD…the blood of the promise, the covenant I made with Abraham. It is by my blood spilled for you that I’ll keep my promise…to forgive to be merciful…and also to be just.
I am THE LAMB you’ve been looking for. I’lll spill my blood for you so that the Lion of God’s justice will Passover you…but this time, for good.
Once my blood is spilt, your future is safe.
The question that Abraham asked coming down the mountain will be answered by my spilled blood.
The question that Israel asked on their way out of Egypt, will be answered by my spilled blood.
With an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment, God the Father will slaughter me.
And then without drinking the 4th cup, Jesus tells them…
But I’m coming back like a lion.
I’m more unstoppable than the Ghost in the Darkness…and no evil can stop my justice.
I will resurrect. I will overcome sin and death and in me…in my NAME…when you trust in me, the resurrected firstborn son of the Father…you will all be sons and daughters too…brothers and sisters…and one day…we’ll drink the 4th cup of the Passover forever.
Like Exodus 6:7 says…I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God.
Conspicuously missing from this Passover meal?
A lamb.
There was no lamb ON the table, because THE LAMB was sitting AT THE TABLE.
And after that, they went out to a garden to pray. Kind of like that first garden, where humans betrayed God…well, they did it again.
Matthew 26:38
for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Jesus asked his disciples to keep watch. To keep vigil.
Just like God kept watch over Israel that night when the Ghost in the Darkness moved through Egypt. Just like he asked Israel to do in the Exodus, they were to continually keep vigil, watching the Lamb.
Stay awake. Keep looking to the future. Keep your Eyes on the LAMB.
But they fell asleep… and eventually, they all fell away. They betrayed the lamb. They reached out their hands to slaughter the God’s only son. His firstborn.
Matthew 27:45-46
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
And on the cross, the destroyer came for Jesus. The Lion of God’s justice came in the darkness to devour the Lamb of God.
Finally, a perfect spotless Lamb. God himself, was being slaughtered for the sins of the world. Finally God could once and for all forgive. Because the world’s problem had been solved.
God was now perfectly just, bringing down his justice on himself…because he had taken on our sin and death on a flawless lamb.
And when from the cross Jesus asked, like Isaac, and like all the sons of Israel, “Where is the lamb?”…this time, separated from his Father…there would be no answer.
So the Father could answer the question we had been asking.
Revelation 5:5-6
And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
But as bitter as it is, like though Passover herbs, to see the Son of God crucified…don’t worry. Jesus is also the Lion of Judah.
Judah, a son of Israel…Jesus is the promised son from all the way back in Genesis 3 that would crush the head of the lying serpent.
He is the slaughtered lamb that gets up off the altar…and reigns like a lion.
In Revelation 14…the Lamb gives a thunderous ROAR like a lion.
See, now, covered in the blood of the Lamb, the Lion is not lurking in the darkness to devour you…he is now protecting your future.
Securing your inheritance as a child of God. And when the evil one lurks in the grass…tempted you to Tsavo…the place of slaughter…the Lion of Judah ROARS…and says “Not this one.”
This one belongs to me. I’ve redeemed him.
Revelation 19:9
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
And finally, unlike Abraham who only had sacrifice. And unlike the Israelites and the disciples the night Jesus died, who had a supper and a sacrifice…in Jesus, our ultimate future…well…its just supper…no sacrifice.
And the Lamb isn’t on the table…He’s at the Table. As the great husband of his bride, the church…all the children of God he redeemed by his blood.
Forever, in Christ, your future is all supper, no sacrifice.
No more tears. No more hunger. No more Ghost in the Darkness.
Only a meal…with all the resurrected children of God.
LORD’S SUPPER
We take this to remember.
But also to watch…to keep vigil…For the lamb that was slain is coming back like a lion…and he’s bringing the 4th Cup of the Passover at the marriage supper of the Lamb.